@zenhob adblock the ai overviews. No mercy.

Every couple months they change the css class and i need a new ublock rule but that's at least somewhat tolerable compared to the alternative.

@zenhob Open question: if you adblock the overview, does it prevent the request from being made to the server?

Or is it still burning energy and just not being rendered? I'm not sure of the specific point in the search process that it happens and when ublock steps in.

@ravelin @zenhob Do any exist?

I'm pretty sure everyone either does it themselves, or is a thin wrapper around the index of someone who does on the back end.

There's no user-respecting search engines that focus on delivering quality results rather than selling ads anymore.

And you can't create one, because everyone is so busy blocking AI crawlers with cloudflare and anubis and what have you that it's virtually impossible to build a "good" web crawler in 2025.

Without the index, your search engine is toast.

@azonenberg @ravelin @zenhob

https://lite.duckduckgo.com

It's not as good as a Google search was in 2010, but it's a far cry better than google circa 2025.

Duckduckgo has had their own share of AI bandwagon ing, but the lite version remains Ai free, and the more people that use it, the more likely it is that it sends the message "we don't want that, we just want to search"